Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Douglas Fraser. Fraser, who under the terms of the 1979 deal became a member of Chrysler's board of directors, labored vigorously to persuade workers that the company was still shaky and needed more relief in labor costs. With almost 40,000 Chrysler assemblers on layoff, that job-saving plea should have made sense to the men and women still at work...
More than any other group, Jews ought to be sympathetic to the Palestinian plea for a homeland. The Palestinians do not want to be scattered over the Middle East any more than the Jews wanted to remain dispersed throughout Europe...
Jackson drives all of this home--the emotion and the music and the passion--with the devastating "Slow Song." Singing a slow and impassioned plea to a nightclub disc jockey to "play us a slow song," he decries those who bluntly destroy the heart and soul of music with their harsh, indelicate approach. "Am I the only one," he asks...
...recognition by voters is almost nil. Bafalis hopes that a series of television commercials will soon fix that. Even so, he faces a formidable task in carving out a distinctive niche. Bafalis plans to focus on crime as his major issue, favoring mandatory jail sentences and an end to plea bargaining. But Graham is no softy on crime; the Governor has signed 39 death warrants since taking office. Bafalis' stance on the volatile immigration issue echoes Graham's as well; both favor deportation of refugees with criminal records...
...another, more pressing question: How could they minimize the scandal for the Securities and Exchange Commission? Their concern was not born of charity. Columbia stock was rising briskly, and Begelman was in large part responsible. But no corporate legal wits could save him. His crimes were tawdry, one eventual plea was nolo contendere, and his self-abnegation lifted from B-movie dialogue: "My worst enemy is sitting right here at this table ... I can't accept success ... I snatch it away from myself by committing crimes." Contrition, however, was a hard sell on the East Coast...